The dominant model of democratic politics emphasizes reason at the
expense of the passions. Passions have been treated as dangerous,
the opposite of reason and the enemy of virtue. Paul Ginsborg and
Sergio Labate challenge this model and put forward a very different
view, developing an account of modern democratic politics in which
both passions and reason play a crucial role. To do justice to the
role of passions in politics, we must pay close attention to the
way in which they circulate among us; then we must develop a
suitable language to describe them - an 'alphabet of the passions'
that enables us to understand how they combine with one another and
connect with certain states of mind in order to shape political
outcomes. Adopting this approach enables the authors to shed new
light on one of the major phenomena of our time - the triumph of
neoliberalism on a world scale. Neoliberalism has worked so well
because it has incorporated its own romantic and individualist
version of the passions into its worldview, seducing both
individuals and families with the allure of consumption. By
developing a new model of democratic politics based on the
interplay of passions and reason, Ginsborg and Labate provide a
much needed framework for understanding the crucial role that
passions play in the unfolding of political life. At a time when
populist leaders are on the ascendancy and political processes are
shaped as much by anger, resentment and fear as they are by reason
and argument, this refocusing of political analysis on the role of
the passions could not be more timely.
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